Hi
I am deleting data from the external hard disk with the "secure shredder" tool. This worked fine in the beginning, but after deleting a couple of GB I started to get more and more problems.
It seems there is a limit how much the shredder can handle at one time, so I had to close Spybot many times in order to empty the shredder window and restart it to continue the work.
But at a point the problems started. It came to a point where Spybot simply closed itself down when I tried to shred some files. Several of the problem files was located in an old backup of temporary internet files. I had to delete them the ordinary way. (I forgot to delete the temp files before I made the backup. A mistake, I know.)
One very large file (I don't remember in what folder or what sort of file it was) became a problem, the shredder would not shred it until I renamed the ending to txt.
The last problem I have now, is a backup file 5.8 GB large. When I try to shred it, Spybot shuts down.
Is this a bug? I have tried to reboot but it does not solve anything. I do not suspect it is a malware problem, I am an advanced user and know more than the average user how to avoid risks and protect my pc. Norton, Spybot and Ad-aware does not find anything of interest. I also use WinPatrol.